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2 Nov 2015

Epitaph for Felicia


Aspicite venientes hic mea membra sepulta:
hic recubo felix parba etate peremta.
Felicia mici nomen est ex progenie ductu,
octavo etatis in saeclo gesseram anno.
dulcis eram patri et garrula matri,
serbis eram leta, tota me leta ferebam.
non vitium mors, consuetudo propria natis,
virginio iam cetu nunc letior adsto.
ultime cum dominus totum concusserit orbem,
tunc cineres isti mundo pereunte resurgent.

Epitaph for Felicia


See, you who come, here my members buried;
Here I rest happy in young age cut off.
Felicia my name, from my lineage drawn,
Eight years of age I attained.
Sweet I was to father, a chatterbox to mother,
A joy to servants, all bore me gladly.
No fault is death, it is the proper way of those born;
And a virgin I wait more joyfully in the whale
Until at last the Lord strikes the whole earth
And these ashes, as the world perishes, rise.

Epitaphios Feliciae

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